Before you begin

In the Cloud Console, on the project selector page,
select or create a Cloud project.

Note: If you don't plan to keep the
resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of
selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can
delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

Navigate Cloud Storage with PowerShell provider

Cloud Tools for PowerShell includes a PowerShell provider for
Cloud Storage. This provider allows you to use commands like
cd, dir, copy and del to navigate and manipulate your data in
Cloud Storage as if the data were on a local file system.

To directly use the provider, you can start Cloud Tools for PowerShell using
the shortcut from the start menu. This will launch a PowerShell console with the
provider loaded:

# Navigate to Cloud Storage
cd gs:\
# Show the available buckets
ls
# Create a new bucket
mkdir my-new-bucket

You can also make the Cloud Storage provider available in any
PowerShell session by importing the Cloud Tools for PowerShell module via
Import-Module GoogleCloud.

What's next

You can learn more about specific cmdlets by referring to the
Cloud Tools for PowerShell cmdlet
reference, or by
using the built-in help system from within PowerShell: